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to save for later… mhvtl – A Linux Virtual Tape Library http://sites.google.com/site/linuxvtl2/ That could be a really nice backup solution.

Generally it is much better to create a ramdisk for this benchmark: # mount -t tmpfs -o size=10G tmpfs /tmp/ramdisk; or # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1M count=10000; # mkfs.ext3 /dev/ram; # mount /dev/ram /tmp/ramdisk -o loop; Normally your harddisk is to slow for a LTO3/4 or a Jaguar2/3 drive Create a 5G or 10G file [...]